linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: clear cfg80211_inform

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Message-ID: <43e72e890909041548i553d63b6k1602eeb52920c4ec@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 4 Sep 2009 15:48:50 -0700
From:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@...eros.com>
To:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@...eros.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: clear cfg80211_inform_bss() from kmemleak 
	reports

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Catalin Marinas<catalin.marinas@....com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 14:58 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez<lrodriguez@...eros.com> wrote:
>>
>> > BTW I should not I got this kmemleak report after using the clear
>> > command by painting objects black. I'll test it now with your
>> > suggested changes.
>>
>> So I pulled your git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6 master into my tree and
>> didn't even need a 'clear' command now, the output of
>> /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak is empty :), so I suspect you have quite a
>> few changes which should help avoid getting false positives.
>>
>> Will these changes make it for 2.6.32?
>
> The kmemleak branch is planned for the upcoming merging window.

Ah great.

> I don't
> think you need to merge the master branch as it has a lot of
> arm-specific code.

That was a goof, thanks, I'll rebase onto your kmemleak branch.

  Luis
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